Traditions : Refiguring Community and Virtue in Classical German Thought

Tradition(s)
Refiguring Community and Virtue in Classical German Thought

Examining the work of Foucault, Kant, Heidegger, Hobbes, and Hegel, Stephen H. Watson tackles the questions: What is the origin of the concept of tradition? How does the notion of tradition affect our understanding of the present and the past? What exactly is tradition?

Studies in Continental Thought―John Sallis, general editor

1998. 336 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Stephen H. Watson is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Extensions: Essays on Interpretation, Rationality, and the Closure of Modernism and Tradition(s): On Community, Remembrance, and Virtue in Classical German Thought (Indiana University Press).